Ensembles

Right: Ensemble.
“The samurai spirit is black,” declared Yohji Yamamoto. “The samurai must be able to throw his body into nothingness, the color and image of which is black.”

Left: Ensemble with wig.
Japanese designers Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, helped redefine the symbolism of black in the 1980s, taking it from the elegant sexiness of the traditional Little Black Dress to something abstract and avant-garde.